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01 Feb 2009
A little while ago I was asked by one of our finance team to see if I could help reduce the workload required in maintaining a reporting Excel spreadsheet. Along with some very specific automation amendments to the spreadsheet I also created something quite generic to allow a macro to be run against multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook.
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01 Feb 2009
NoteTab clipping uses the clip wizard functionality to produce sophisticated input dialog windows to obtain information from the user. There is however a strange view produced when looking at a single check box. The clip code shown below shows the various pieces of clip code used and below that are the discussions of the approach and options along with the screen shots of what the clip wizard produces.
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31 Jan 2009
Sometimes when testing network connectivity to a server on the local LAN or a web site I use the ubiquitous PING command to do the job. If I need to do it repeatedly I tend to write a quick DOS batch file (a text based script with a file extension of BAT or CMD).
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31 Jan 2009
Like almost everyone else with an Internet connection on the western part of our planet I use Google a lot. Today though they seem to be having problems. Everything I’m searching for seems to have an associated warning - this site may harm your computer.
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29 Jan 2009
A little clip I like to use in NoteTab is one for ensuring that I have
an empty file. I usually call it using the ^!FarClip command from a
standard library before I dump out the results of something where I
always want it to be separate.
27 Jan 2009
When working with NoteTab clips I like to be efficient and reuse clips just like programmers do with functions, subroutines, code libraries, etc. So one little thing I like to use when dealing with some clips is a conditional statement that allows the clip to work out if it was called from another clip with a parameter.
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25 Jan 2009
Microsoft have relatively recently launched their new “mobile tagging” beta programme. It’s quite similar to the existing QR codes that have been around for some time and it was for this reason that it caught my attention and I decided to give Microsoft Tag an evaluation in comparison to QR codes.
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20 Jan 2009
Ever sorted sticky notes (affinity diagramming) on a wall and then had to copy it all down? Well perhaps StickySorterfrom Microsoft Offics Labs might be just the thing you need. Combine it with an electronic whiteboard like MIMIOor a projector and a gyroscopic/wireless keyboard & mouse and you can really get to work. With Microsoft Surface on the horizon it could be even more natural and just ever so slightly Minority Report … but not everything’s perfect.
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14 Jan 2009
As anyone who’s been following the RebootIT Twitter feed today will know, I’ve been at the first day of the BETT Show 09. BETT (or British Education and Training Technology) is an education focussed technology event with the global industry giants of IT such as Microsoft right the way down to businesses run by individuals providing specialised learning materials. Whilst the Academy is not dealing directly with educating students, we do work in the HE sector and so the suppliers are often the same. Additionally we do need to train our own staff in technology and so there’s some parallels there too.
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12 Jan 2009
For a simple screen shot taking tool, Lightscreen is a free piece of software that sits in the system tray and can assign hot keys to capturing screen areas as well as the usual desktop and active window. It can also be set to dump out direct to file.
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